Test cricket can be a daunting spectacle for the unfamiliar: a vast field, two sets of wickets and up to five days of play in a single match. But it is also beautiful; a prolonged battle unlike ...

"The tour is only a matter of hours old, but the wry thought occurs to me that reputations will almost certainly be destroyed in the next few months." The pessimistic, pithy aside of Geoffrey Boycott ...

Threatened to be neglected and cast aside by the flashier and faster three-hour T20 format, the traditional five-day Test cricket has somehow survived these increasingly faster times. It's not hard to ...

England cricketers Andrew Flintoff with daughter Holly, Kevin Pietersen (C) and Michael Vaughan (R) celebrates winning the Ashes on the team bus during the Ashes victory parade in London, 13 September ...

Batting in Test cricket as an opener demands superhuman courage, unwavering concentration, and peerless technique. These cricketers face the new ball when it is at its most lethal—swinging, seaming, ...

The godfather of modern West Indian fast bowling shakes his head slowly, having been reminded what happened the last time his once proud and near-invincible team played Test cricket. “It hurt,” says ...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — While the West Indies tries to determine a way to improve its once-fearsome test team, Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg warns that some rivals — without ...